Freight-car.



D. E. PETERSON.

FREIGHT OAR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 11, 1913.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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E. PETERSON.

FREIGHT GAR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 11, 1913.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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1 1; 1 r I! V n l\ x 5 8 HUQMtOZ fig Fei'ensom DAVID E. PETERSON, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FREIGHT-CAR.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13, 1 91 4.

Application filed January 11, 1913. Serial No. 741,506.

7 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that I, DAVID E. PETERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Freight- Cars, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in freight cars.

In carrying out my invention it is my purpose to provide a freight car, in which breakable goods are transported, with an inner frame or cage in which the goods are deposited which is so constructed and arranged within the car as to be free from the shock and jar incident to the cars contacting with each other or to the undulating surface over which the car passes.

With the above recited object in view, and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is more fully understood, the invention consists in the construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts set forth in the following description and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view taken approximately on the line a--a of Fig. 2, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line b?) of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line c0 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line a30l of Fi 3.

Vhile in the drawings I have illustrated a satisfactory reduction of my invention to practice, it is to be understood that the essential features of the invention involved in carrying out my improvement are necessarily susceptible of embodiment in various forms of construction without departing from the scope of the invention.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, the numeral 1 designates the body of an ordinary freight car. In the resent instance, the car 1 is provided at its opposite ends with compartments 2 which serve as chambers for ice whereby perishable articles transported by the car may be preserved. The inner walls of the compartments 2, which are designated by the numerals 3, preferably embody a plurality of vertically arranged spaced posts or studdings which are securely connected with both the top and the bottom, and the end posts are also securely connected with the sides of the post. The studs or posts are also preferably pro vided w th spaced connecting boards or strips which are arranged at an angle to the said post, and whereby the partitions are rendered strong and efiective, and also whereby the cold air may find a passage between the posts and the connecting strips to the body of the car. The body of the car between the partitions 3 is provided upon both its bottom and sides with a longitudinally extending T-bar 4, the flanged port ons of the said bars being connected to the sides and to the bottom of the car. The lower side beams terminate with the vertical stiles of the doorway of the car, but the upper bar or bars may extend the entire longitudinal length of the car.

Arranged within the body of the car, between the partitions 3, is an inner body or lining which is generally designated by the numeral 5. The body 5 is made in skeleton form; that is, the frame work of the body comprising a plurality of vertical posts having both longitudinal and end connecting strips, the said strips being suitably spaced one from the other. The body 5 has its sides centrally provided with openings which correspond to the opening providing the doorway of the car proper, and the frame of the body 5 1s effectively braced by cross beams or plates 6. The cross beams upon the ends of the body are disposed to the outer faces of said body, the purpose of which arrangement will presently be set forth. The sides of the body have their longitudinal strips 7 provided with reinforcing flat steel bars 8 which contact with the central rib or member of each of the T-bars 4 that are arranged upon the sides of the car proper. The body 5 is provided with a suitable floor 8, and this floor is provided upon its underface with a plurality of longitudinally extending fiat steel bars 9 which bear upon the central ribs of the T-bars provided upon the floor of the car proper. The transverse connecting bars upon the inner faces of the partitions 3 are provided with vertically arranged metallic plates 10, and disposed between these plates and the crossed reinforcing bars of the ends of the body 5 are helical springs 11, the said springs being sustained upon the plates 10 and the connecting bars at the end of the body in any desired or preferred manner.

From the above description, taken in connection with the drawings, it will be noted that the T-bars of the car proper and the bearing plates or bars upon the body 5 provide a smooth bearing for the body which will permit of a free longitudinal movement of said body within the car, and that the springs 11 provide cushion elements which will absorb the shock or jar to which the car may be subjected, so that the body will move longitudinally of the car a limited distance when the car is subjected to the shock, and thus the articles arranged within the body will be eiiectively protected against breakage.

\Vhile the device has been described in connection with freight cars and as a means for preventing the breakage of goods arranged within the cars, it is to be understood that the structure may be applied to ordinary passenger coaches to protect the passengers in the coaches against the shock and jar to which the coach is subjected when the train meets with sharp curves in its run, or

in the sudden stopping or starting of the tram, or when the train meets with an accident such as a collision with another train.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is: I

1. A car having an auxiliary body arranged therein, guide bars Within the car engaging the body and spacing the body from the car, and butter members for the body.

2. A freight car having a skeleton body arranged therein, combined guide and bearing bars within the car, wear plates upon the body and engaging the guide and bearing bars, and springs arranged between the ends of the body and the ends of the car.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID E. PETERSON Witnesses:

BELLA FRIED, HENRY W. PETERSON, 

